Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Neophyte]

Just a note painflare is very good if you are about to lose atunement and

1. Target is about to go immune, and fester is on CD.
2. Target has just reappeared, but you do not have time to apply 3 dots.

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Especially on Ravana it happens often that I sit on 3-5s Ätherflow (II) or (I) right when he returns.. Painflare -> 30s.
But I hope most ppl know.


Quick question: Does the stances of ravana behave like VULN-stacks or debuffs? I.e. DoTs do 'big' damage as long as they are applied while attack stance or DoTs doing 'normal' dmg when applied before he switches to DEF-stance?

[Drakeos]

Still so confusing

[Assirra]

Greetings, aspiring summoner here, want to make it my first dps class but i need help with something.
Is there any way to reliable control which target your egi goes for?
Today something happened that straight up killed the fun for me.

It was Amdapor Keep HM last boss.
As you might know you need to kill the adds fast at certain points or it is a 1shot dead. Now here came the issue.
Whatever i did my pet refused, absolutely refused to attack the add half the time.
I went as far as putting it on obey, placing him next to the add and attack the add first, yet he still was like "FUCK YOU I NEED TO KILL BOSS"
Needless to say, this worked incredible on my nerves since the dps wasn't already too amazing and him not attacking adds was basically a wipe.

[Sidra]

bind obey, and use it while the enemy you want is targeted. Otherwise it will always stay on its first target.

[Assirra]

See i don't get this.
If you read my explanation you see i did exactly that but egi just didn't care.
I put it on obey, then placed it next to target and then attacked said target and still he went for the boss.

[ShinryuReishiki]

If you want it to switch to a different target, you must first target the desired enemy, then give the Obey command. If you give the Obey command while still targeting the original enemy or while targeting nothing, you're just telling the pet to continue whatever it is doing.

[Sidra]

See i don't get this.
If you read my explanation you see i did exactly that but egi just didn't care.
I put it on obey, then placed it next to target and then attacked said target and still he went for the boss.

I didn't say hit obey, place it next to the target, and then start attacking. I said hit obey while the enemy you want it to attack is targeted. Your method could very well have your pet attacking the boss because of how Guard works (or you had simply already been attacking the boss yourself), and nothing you did will make it switch. Hitting Obey while you have a target selected sends your pet at it.

[Assirra]

Ah I see. I was of the understanding that obey was just a mode.
I try that then next time,cheers.

[Darkstride]

See i don't get this.
If you read my explanation you see i did exactly that but egi just didn't care.
I put it on obey, then placed it next to target and then attacked said target and still he went for the boss.

You need to target the enemy and then use Obey to force the Egi to attack that target. Just because you switch targets or move your Egi doesn't mean it will follow you, you have to use Sic or Obey if you want to command it to target a specific enemy after it has already engaged another.

[Jaeifer]

Wow that is low.

So only like 5% difference between A1S->A4S

My estimate of 9% was way too high then.

Good to know cause that opens up some great gear options.

Hold your horses before you jump into any gear buying fits though.

In A4S the legs don't have a front nor flank, normal accuracy rules don't apply here.
(I havent missed at all with 490 accuracy as BLM. => The legs have no/marginal accuracy requirements.)

Unless you're on final phase you won't really know the requirements.